Airtight Conversion

[walsall]

Afternoon,

Don’t normally do domestics, but am involved with a smarthome project. The inside leaf is blockwork and will be dry lined. Normally I’d just chase the cables and boxes in the wall.

The builder wants to apply a parge coat to the wall to increase airtightness as a base to the dot/dab boards. One solution is to clip the conduit to the walls on top of the parge coat, just chasing out the boxes and use lots of adhesive behind to make them airtight. Then just have bigger dots to clear the cables/oval conduit.
Has anyone with experience of these obsessive airtight issues got any better ideas?

I can’t tell you how much I prefer unistrut & galv trunking!

 

[PEG]

IF,and only IF,the correct method of dabbing is used,provision is made to prevent air movement/fire migration.This is achieved by a CONTINUOUS band of DWA at all board edges.It is not hard to achieve and is taught and accepted as good practice.The plasterer doing this will have a 10 ft straight edge,customers without having to advertise,and my admiration.I am not,and never will be,ashamed of counting good plasterers and plumbers amongst my friends,regardless of the perceived rivalry between the trades...even when they swear at me for getting acoustic DB boards to put up at 33 kg a pop...

 

[trev]

I am not,and never will be,ashamed of counting good plasterers and plumbers amongst my friends,

Forgive me learned friends for I have sinned, one of my best mates is a pipe monkey. Other very good friends are wood butchers and muck chuckers.
My most heinous crime of all though, I used to be in a band with a bricklayer.

 

[jimmymac]

Forgive me learned friends for I have sinned, one of my best mates is a pipe monkey. Other very good friends are wood butchers and muck chuckers.
My most heinous crime of all though, I used to be in a band with a bricklayer.

I thought better of you Trev. Did you know that a guy who used to be my brother is now a plumber.....

 

[trev]

I thought better of you Trev. Did you know that a guy who used to be my brother is now a plumber.....

It gets worse Jim, a lad I was at school with and one of the few I still have contact with................
Is.....a tiler.
I'm sorry

 

[jimmymac]

It gets worse Jim, a lad I was at school with and one of the few I still have contact with................
Is.....a tiler.
I'm sorry

Good god man....it just goes to show, you think you know somebody.........

 

[PEG]

arhhh but is he a GOOD tiler or a bad one? The tiler who desecrated my friends bathroom should have been down the local climbing centre designing a new red route...you know it's bad when you slide a new bar of soap down the wall and at the bottom,there's nowt to wash with :winkiss: